The Third Offensive

*hordes of grunt snipers in the distance chuckle*

 

Sorry, I was switching Automatic and Obligatory in my mind. Apologies.

 

Sorry, confused. Marksmanship X is changing? What exactly will it do now?

 

It's confirmed clarified it can shoot through Saturation Zones, and rumoured that it'll ignore cover completely. Very nice change.

 

So in range in cover:
Luna hits on 22 imposing -9 (+ range) for Opponent with surprise shot.
Mk5 on 22 vs -3 (+range)
Grunt sniper in 5 models link hits on 23 vs -3 (+ range)
Teucer is 23 with MSV2 vs -3 (+range)

Atalanta cries in corner;)
I believe this change will be important only for Luna. Maybe Teucer with feuerbach, but he is still so expensive...
Sometimes maybe for Grunt.

 

Very unusual. Does that mean ignores cover bonus and armor? Is it a stack on MM2?

 

Are we sure that we can combine surprise shot and MMX?

Abilities with levels X dont stack with numerical levels

 

When was that an issue?

 

Well, it was always the issue that Saturation Zone Burst MOD was applied first, hence B2 weapons (like Feuerbach on Teucer) could not use MMX to fire through Saturation Zones

 

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Effects

• Any BS Attack from, into, or through a Saturation Zone suffers a -1 Burst MOD.
• Consequently, any BS Attack whose LoF makes contact with a Saturation Zone suffers the -1 B MOD.
• The minimum Burst value is always 1.

 

Emphasis added by me.
1. Feuerbach is Burst 2.
2. Saturation Zone lowers by 1 to 1.
= Marksmanship LX cannot be used since B is lower than 2.

 

The minimum B value is always 1. So so....? It reduces B2 to B1, but B1 stays B1 as it is minimum value.

 

But Burst must be 2 or more AFTER modifiers. So if you have B2 and MMX and want to shoot though a Saturation zone, you cant apply MMX

 

K, I can see where problem is. Funny.
Never considered using marksmanship lvlX, not many models with it also.

 

"Clarified" might be a better word than "confirmed".

 

It's also been stated in rumours that MMX is becoming a long skill

 

Oh right, sorry for that, yes, this will not be an issue in the near future.

 

Since you're here, can you confirm if MMX will require a whole order to use? Or is that just a rumor and it's use is automatic? If it is automatic, does that include the reactive turn?

 

If MMX is just being clarified to work with B1 weapons, I guess that is nice. But that makes not much of a difference for Morats, doesn't it? Where is the benefit? Especially since no MAF units have the skill)

 

I'd say it's likely than being clarified to work with B1 weapons, it's probable that it's being clarified as to when you look at B to determine if the skill can be used, i.e. before Sat Zone MODs, after, or do you just use the B from the weapon profile to use the skill and then start moving forward or what exactly.